Angela Joo-Hyun Kang
Angela Joo-Hyun Kang is the founder and CEO of G-CEF (Global Competitiveness Empowerment Forum), a CSR consultancy firm based in Seoul, South Korea to help corporations design and execute multi-dimensional and strategic CSR strategy, policy and communication along with catalystic project planning and management through multilateral alliances.
From 1992, she worked as PR Manager, International Marketing Team Manager and Sales Manager in a Korean subsidiary of a French multinational corporation, Clarins. She also worked for KOSDAQ listed IT venture companies and developed global software distribution partner networks from zero to eleven countries in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America.
She has integrated her business experiences with her work in the nonprofit sector as the Strategic Alliance Manager of the Korean partner of International Youth Foundation in 2003, and then moved into the realm of CSR. In the area of corporate philanthropy, she worked with Nsyscom, a Korean CSR consulting company, the Korean Corporate Citizenship Center and the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship. Her corporate responsibility experience includes the working for National Human Rights Council of Korea to bridge business and human rights for innovative human value centered management in 2007 and the Global Compact Korea Network for the joint conference with UN Global Compact, UN PRI and UNEP FI in 2008.
Ms. Kang holds a mid career Master degree of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School where she was an Asia Program Fellow of Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (currently under Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation) as well as a Mason Fellow of the Edwards S. Mason Program in Public Policy and Management.
She founded and continues to chair the Emerging Economies Working Group (EEWG) under Corporation 20/20 based in Boston, US, to find similarities and differences of corporations in emerging economies and developed economies, honoring historical and cultural perspectives.
She has spoken about CSR on various occasions and places including the following: the Business Ethics School of the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI), the Global Business School of the FKI-IMI (International Management Institute), the European Chamber of Commerce Korea & Europe Korea Foundation, the Business & Human Rights Roundtable jointly held by Global Compact Korea Network, the National Human Rights Council of Korea and Korea Human Rights Foundation, the 2008 Asia Business Conference jointly held by student organizations of Harvard Business School, and the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School etc.
She is currently serving as an advisor of Korea Human Rights Foundation, Community Relations Center under the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and Presidential Council of Nation Branding of Republic of Korea.
